Purple was the punch of the month for Walter Price's solo exhibition Pearl Lines (1–28 March 2024) across Modern Art's two London locations.
The exhibitions at Helmet Row and Bury Street certainly felt funky, with violet gesso, lilac gaffer-taped canvases, and indigo frames, the whole set against maroon walls and brown carpeted floors.
And for the American artist, born in Macon, Georgia, this was the intention. Or rather, 'when it feels funky' is his criteria for knowing when to put the paintbrush down.
Yet a walk around the exhibition, you learn that 'finished' is a moveable goalpost for Price. His tendency to make good of the old is seen in the gaffer-taped Handle with Care (2024), where he has wrapped strips of lilac tape around the remains of a painting past.